I want to grep line. Example I have #chargen in file and i want to command to grep output this word with #
cat /etc/inetd.conf | grep '*#' chargen
no result, any idea
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i use this command cat /etc/inetd.conf | grep '#'chargen but i recive #chargen stream tcp nowait root internal #chargen dgram udp wait root internal , i want only output #chargen – trytobemaster Mar 28 '19 at 19:46
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[Useless use of cat?](https://stackoverflow.com/q/11710552/608639) and [Useless Use of Cat Award](http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html) – jww Mar 28 '19 at 19:57
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`grep -Eo '#[[:alnum:]]+'` – glenn jackman Mar 28 '19 at 20:06
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or `grep -o '#chargen'` – Walter A Mar 28 '19 at 22:52